Suskind's New Book--Got to Get it!

From The Way Of The World

The Way of the World : (From a Larger) Cast of Characters : George W. Bush Candace Gorman Abdul Hamid al-Ghizzawi Candace Gorman a civil rights lawyer, representing detainees at Guantanamo Bay

From Act I, Chapter 4

On an oddly balmy morning in December, Candace Gorman arrives at the "secret facility," a nondescript office building in Washington.

She waits in the foyer to pass through three separate security checks. This is her first visit to the bowels of the government's huge secret bureaucracy. After she returned from Switzerland, she immediately petitioned the court to see the new classified evidence that prompted the second military panel to reverse the previous panel's decision on Mr. al-Ghizzawi.

She received the green light yesterday and didn't want to wait a minute. She caught a flight to Dulles this morning.

After a half hour of questions and completing forms, she enters a large nondescript room about the size of a small cafeteria, with tables scattered about. A military officer soon enters and places a file in front of her stamped classified...

Candace opens the file and starts flipping. Nothing here is blacked out, unlike the redacted version she read in Switzerland. There are attached items in the back. That's where the new evidence is. She begins flipping from the front--from a report on the January hearing that recertified Ghizzawi as an unlawful enemy combatant--to the back. She reads the new evidence and thinks, this can't be right. . . .

Candace Gorman is a civil rights lawyer from Chicago, who began representing Guantanamo Bay detainees in 2005. The Way of the World tells the story of her struggle to see justice done for one of her clients, Abdul Hamid al-Ghizzawi.

© Ron Suskind

From the White House to Downing Street, from the fault–line countries of South Asia to the sands of Guantánamo, Suskind offers an astonishing story that connects world leaders to the forces waging today's shadow wars and to the next generation of global citizens. Tracking down truth and hope within the Beltway and far beyond it, Suskind delivers historic disclosures with this emotionally stirring and strikingly original portrait of the post-9/11 world.

In a sweeping, propulsive, and multi-layered narrative, The Way of the World investigates how America relinquished the moral leadership it now desperately needs...

...The Way of the World simultaneously follows an ensemble of characters in America and abroad who are turning fear and frustration into a desperate—and often daring—brand of human salvation. They include a striving, twenty-four-year-old Pakistani émigré, a fearless UN refugee commissioner, an Afghan boy, a Holocaust survivor's son, and Benazir Bhutto, who discovers, days before her death, how she's been abandoned by the United States at her moment of greatest need. They are all testing American values at a time of peril, and discovering solutions...

For anyone hoping to exercise truly informed consent and begin the process of restoring the values and hope—along with the moral clarity and earned optimism—at the heart of the American tradition, The Way of the World is a must-read.

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